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Thermal Infrared Radiation and Carbon Dioxide in the Atmosphere
Bill Satzer3M Company
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Outline
• Radiation spectra – incoming and outgoing• Physical setting – characteristics of the atmosphere• CO2 interaction with infrared• Basic model and some results
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Earth’s emitted spectrum
Ozone
Carbon dioxide
Water vapor
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Atmospheric composition(parts per million by volume)
• Nitrogen (N2) 780,840 • Oxygen (O2) 209,460 • Argon (Ar) 9340 • Carbon dioxide (CO2) 394• Methane (CH4) 1.79• Ozone (O3) 0.00 – 0.07• Water vapor 4000 (average over full atmosphere)
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Carbon dioxide and water vapor: concentration as a function of height in the atmosphere
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Temperature vs. altitude in earth’s atmosphere
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Effect of an atmospheric gas on long wave radiation from the earth’s surface depends on:
• Amount of the gas by volume;• Amount of long wave energy radiated; and • Amount of energy the gas can absorb at a
given wavelength.
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Receptivity of gas molecules to infrared radiation
• Molecules can absorb and emit energy only at certain wavelengths.
• The typical infrared wavelength of interest is about 400 times the size of a carbon dioxide molecule. Interaction is via electric field with molecule’s electric charge distribution.
• Excited molecular states have very long lifetimes compared to excited electron states – from milliseconds to tenths of seconds.
• Mean time between collisions with another molecule is roughly 0.1 microseconds – so, many collisions and efficient energy transfer.
• Very little scattering occurs.
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Downward long wave radiation spectrum (measured at the earth’s surface)
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Which gases are the important absorbers?
• N2 and O2 are not – they are essentially transparent to IR.• H2O• CO2• CH4
Good absorbers of IR are gases with molecules having easily excited bending, vibration or rotation modes.
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Bending, stretching and rotating modes for CO2 molecule
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Fine structure of carbon dioxide absorption spectrum near 15 micron wavelength
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Schwarzschild equations for radiative transfer
In an infinitesimal layer in local thermodynamic equilibrium , for a fixed frequency and angle of incidence:
dIup = ‐kIup ρr secθ dz + kIb ρr secθ dz
dIdown = kIdown ρr secθ dz ‐ kIb ρr secθ dz
where I is radiative flux, k = k(z, p, T, ν) is the absorption coefficient, ρr is the density of the radiating gas, Ib = Ib (T) is blackbody radiation flux from Planck’s law, z is altitude, p is pressure, T is temperature, and ν is frequency.
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dz
ϴ
ϴ
ρr p T
Iup
Idown
k
ν
ν
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It’s convenient to introduce a transmission function.
First take u to be the mass of the radiating gas per unit area:
Note: u = 0 at the top of the atmosphere, and increases as z decreases.
Then the transmission function is defined as:
for u0 < u1 .
τ takes values in [0, 1].
u = ∞ dz
τ(u0, u1) = exp [-secθ 1
0]
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u = u0 Top of atmosphere
u = u1 Earth’s surface
IupIdown
zu
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Rewriting the Schwarzschild equations in terms of u:
dIup = kIup secθ du ‐ kIb secθ du
dIdown = ‐ kIdown secθ du + kIb secθ du
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Then the general solution is :
u0 is the value at the upper boundary, taken to be the top of the atmosphere. u1 is the value at the lower boundary, usually taken to be the earth’s surface.
Also Idown (u0) = 0 because there is essentially no downward infrared flux from the top of the atmosphere. Furthermore, Iup (u1 ) is the blackbody radiation from the surface of the earth.
= 1)
Iup (u) = Iup (u1) τ (u, u1) + secθ 1 τ(u,w) dw
Idown (u) = Idown (u0) τ (u0 , u) + secθ 0 τ(w,u) dw
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Integrating these general solutions by parts, and applying boundary conditions, we eliminate explicit dependence on absorption coefficient:
Iup(u) = Ib (u) + 1
Idown (u) = Ib (u) – Ib (0) τ(0,u) –
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Some special cases:
I. High transmission. Low absorption (τ → 1).
Iup (u) = Ib (u1)
II. Low transmission, high absorption (τ → 0).
Idown (u) = 0
Iup (u) = Ib (u)
Idown (u) = Ib (u)
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Radiation flux computation (Gilbert Plass)
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Conclusions and Caveats
• Carbon dioxide is a potent absorber of infrared radiation, especially near 15 microns.
• We’ve only considered radiative transfer, but convection and other energy transport mechanisms operate, especially in the troposphere
• We’ve considered CO2 , but water vapor is also a significant atmospheric absorber.
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from the New York Times – October 28, 1956
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Last paragraph of the NYT story
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References
• Gilbert N. Plass, Infrared radiation in the atmosphere, American Journal of Physics, 24 , No. 5, May 1956.
• P.E. Martin and E.F. Barker, The Infrared Absorption Spectrum of Carbon Dioxide, Physical Review, 41, August 1, 1932.
• V. Robert Stull, Philip J. Wyatt, and Gilbert N. Plass, The Infrared Transmittance of Carbon Dioxide, Applied Optics, 3, No. 2, February 1964
• R.T. Pierrehumbert, Principles of Planetary Climate, 2010